NATIONAL

Age-specific, year-specific mortality estimates for Malawi between the years 1987 and 2013 are shown below.

3D (raw estimates)

2D (raw estimates)

2D (spline-smoothed)

Data Table

Data Sources

Data for these estimates is based on the following DHS surveys for Malawi:

REGIONAL

NOTE: Some regional recoding was necessary to harmonize the different surveys. The final regions used in each survey are shown in the plot below:

Mortality trends for each region

The plots below show the mortality experienced by different age groups in the different regions of Malawi.

0 - 14 years

15 - 49 years

Poisson Model

The results of the Poisson regression (using age group, time period and country region as predictors) are shown below:

	Deaths
Predictors	Incidence Rate Ratios	CI	p
(Intercept)	0.02	0.02 – 0.02	<0.001
Age Group: 0 - 14	Reference
Age Group: 15 - 49	0.27	0.27 – 0.28	<0.001
Period: 1980s	Reference
Period: 1990s	1.09	1.05 – 1.12	<0.001
Period: 2000s	1.10	1.06 – 1.13	<0.001
Period: 2010s	0.77	0.73 – 0.81	<0.001
Region: Central	Reference
Region: Northern	0.80	0.77 – 0.82	<0.001
Region: Southern	1.17	1.15 – 1.20	<0.001
Observations	24
R2 Nagelkerke	1.000

Data table

Sources

Data was sourced from the following DHS surveys for Malawi:

Below we present the age-specific, year-specific mortality estimates for each region of Malawi between the years 1987 and 2013.

Northern

Spline-smoothed

Data Table

Central

Spline-smoothed

Data Table

Southern

Spline-smoothed

Data Table